Miles Davis Vols. 1 & 2

Not to be confused with Young Man with a Horn (also known as Miles Davis Volume 1), Miles Davis Volume 2, or Miles Davis Volume 3.

Miles Davis, Volumes 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related albums by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis recorded on May 9, 1952, April 20, 1953 and March 6, 1954 and released on Blue Note early 1956. The three sessions were originally released on ten-inch LPs as Young Man with a Horn (1953), Miles Davis, Vol. 2 (1953) and Miles Davis, Vol. 3 (1954), respectively.^[2]

Miles Davis
Volume 1
Compilation album by Miles Davis
Released	January 1956 (Vol. 1)[1] February 1956 (Vol. 2)
Recorded	May 9, 1952 (1952-05-09) April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20) March 6, 1954 (1954-03-06)
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Hard bop
Length	43:36 (Vol. 1; LP) 44:31 (Vol. 2; LP) 58:18 (Vol. 1; CD) 39:17 (Vol. 2; CD)
Label	Blue Note BLP 1501 (Vol. 1) BLP 1502 (Vol. 2)
Producer	Alfred Lion
Miles Davis chronology
Dig (1956) Miles Davis (1956) Quintet / Sextet (1956)
Miles Davis
Volume 2

Background

Personal life

Volume 1 was originally released in January 1956 shortly after Davis won the DownBeat readers poll as best trumpeter and shortly followed in February by Volume 2 (BLP 1502).^[3]

Release history

After 10"s lost the format war, Blue Note began reissuing its Modern Jazz Series on 12"s. The three sessions were subsequently recompiled across Miles Davis, Volume 1 (BLP 1501) and Miles Davis, Volume 2 (BLP 1502), the first of Blue Note's 1500 series, their first one hundred 12" records after they discontinued their line of 10" records.^[2]

The two volumes were recompiled for their CD reissue, restoring the track listing of the original 10"s, placing Vol. 1 (BLP 2028) on Volume 1, and Vol. 2 (BLP 5057) and Vol. 3 (BLP 5070) on Volume 2.

While the original BLP 1501 running order is available on some Japanese CD versions and from HDTracks, most CD reissues recompile the three sets with an entirely different track listing, grouping the sessions together and appending alternate takes, placing the 1952 and 1954 sessions on Volume 1 and the 1953 session on Volume 2.^{[citation needed]}

When Rudy Van Gelder remastered the pair of the 2001 RVG edition, he reused the CD track list and replaced the covers for the two volumes with new covers based on the originals from Miles Davis, Vol. 3 and Miles Davis, Vol. 2 respectively.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his AllMusic essay "Hard Bop" in 2010 as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.^[6]

Track listing

Miles Davis, Volume 1

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Tempus Fugit"	Bud Powell	April 20, 1953	3:53
2.	"Kelo"	Jay Jay Johnson	April 20, 1953	3:30
3.	"Enigma"	Johnson	April 20, 1953	3:25
4.	"Ray's Idea"	Gil Fuller Ray Brown	April 20, 1953	3:46
5.	"How Deep Is the Ocean?"	Irving Berlin	May 9, 1952	4:40
6.	"C.T.A." (alternate take)	Jimmy Heath	April 20, 1953	3:18

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Dear Old Stockholm"	Traditional	May 9, 1952	4:13
2.	"Chance It"	Oscar Pettiford	May 9, 1952	3:04
3.	"Yesterdays"	Jerome Kern Otto Harbach	May 9, 1952	3:46
4.	"Donna" (alternate take)	Jackie McLean	May 9, 1952	3:12
5.	"C.T.A."	Jimmy Heath	April 20, 1953	3:36
6.	"Woody 'n' You" (alternate take)	Dizzy Gillespie	May 9, 1952	3:23
Total length:				43:36

Miles Davis, Volume 2

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Take Off"	Miles Davis	March 6, 1954	3:41
2.	"Weirdo"	Davis	March 6, 1954	4:45
3.	"Woody 'n' You"	Dizzy Gillespie	May 9, 1952	3:26
4.	"I Waited for You"	Fuller Gillespie	April 20, 1953	3:31
5.	"Ray's Idea" (alternate take)	Fuller Ray Brown	April 20, 1953	3:53
6.	"Donna"	Jackie McLean	May 9, 1952	3:14

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Well, You Needn't"	Thelonious Monk	March 6, 1954	5:24
2.	"The Leap"	Davis	March 6, 1954	4:32
3.	"Lazy Susan"	Davis	March 6, 1954	4:03
4.	"Tempus Fugit" (alternate take)	Bud Powell	April 20, 1953	3:31
5.	"It Never Entered My Mind"	Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart	March 6, 1954	4:01
Total length:				44:31

CD reissues

Source:^[7]

Miles Davis, Volume 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Dear Old Stockholm"	Traditional	May 9, 1952	4:13
2.	"Chance It"	Oscar Pettiford	May 9, 1952	3:04
3.	"Donna" (a.k.a. Dig)	Jackie McLean	May 9, 1952	3:14
4.	"Woody 'n' You"	Dizzy Gillespie	May 9, 1952	3:26
5.	"Yesterdays"	Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach	May 9, 1952	3:46
6.	"How Deep Is the Ocean?"	Irving Berlin	May 9, 1952	4:40
7.	"Chance It" (alternate take)	Oscar Pettiford	May 9, 1952	2:54
8.	"Donna" (alternate take)	Jackie McLean	May 9, 1952	3:12
9.	"Woody 'n' You" (alternate take)	Dizzy Gillespie	May 9, 1952	3:23
10.	"Take Off"	Miles Davis	March 6, 1954	3:41
11.	"Lazy Susan"	Miles Davis	March 6, 1954	4:03
12.	"The Leap"	Miles Davis	March 6, 1954	4:32
13.	"Well, You Needn't"	Thelonious Monk	March 6, 1954	5:24
14.	"Weirdo"	Miles Davis	March 6, 1954	4:45
15.	"It Never Entered My Mind"	Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart	March 6, 1954	4:01
Total length:				43:36

Miles Davis, Volume 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Kelo"	Jay Jay Johnson	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:20
2.	"Enigma"	Jay Jay Johnson	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:25
3.	"Ray's Idea"	Gil Fuller, Ray Brown	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:46
4.	"Tempus Fugit"	Bud Powell	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:53
5.	"C.T.A."	Jimmy Heath	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:36
6.	"I Waited for You"	Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:31
7.	"Kelo" (alternate take)	Jay Jay Johnson	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:27
8.	"Enigma" (alternate take)	Jay Jay Johnson	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:27
9.	"Ray's Idea" (alternate take)	Gil Fuller, Ray Brown	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:53
10.	"Tempus Fugit" (alternate take)	Bud Powell	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	4:01
11.	"C.T.A." (alternate take)	Jimmy Heath	April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)	3:18
Total length:				39:17

Personnel

Musicians

May 9, 1952

Source:^[8]

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• J. J. Johnson – trombone
• Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
• Gil Coggins – piano
• Oscar Pettiford – bass
• Kenny Clarke – drums
  • Recorded at WOR Studios, New York City

April 20, 1953

Source:^[9]

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• J. J. Johnson – trombone
• Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone
• Gil Coggins – piano
• Percy Heath – bass
• Art Blakey – drums
  • Recorded at WOR Studios, New York City

March 6, 1954

Source:^[10]

• Miles Davis – trumpet
• Horace Silver – piano
• Percy Heath – bass
• Art Blakey – drums
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Technical personnel

Original

• Alfred Lion – producer
• Doug Hawkins (1952, 1953) – recording engineer
• Rudy Van Gelder (1954) – recording engineer
• John Hermansader, Reid Miles – cover design
• Francis Wolff – photography
• Leonard Feather – liner notes

Reissue

• Michael Cuscuna – producer
• Ron McMaster, Yoshio Okazaki – digital transfers